"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
-Abraham Maslow
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"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.“
-Abraham Maslow
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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."
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"But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."
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"The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
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